Heckler on Teacher
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Waiting for some sense over weight
Heckler CHILDHOOD obesity is in the spotlight again, with Professor David Penington's suggestion that a child's weight be recorded on their primary school report.
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Bad mothers confab: no fakes please
Heckler DUE to escalated interest in the bad mothers meetings, which have been held on an irregular basis through the year, a Bad Mothers Conference has been planned so that we can all sleep in following the...
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Converted to pushing the party line
Heckler I COULDN'T think of an excuse quickly enough when the call came. ''I know you don't like them,'' my friend pleaded. ''But you don't have to buy anything.
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Report card that 'could do better'
Heckler WRITING reports for the end of a school year used to be one of the more bizarrely enjoyable duties a teacher had. Certainly it was onerous and time consuming but it was also cathartic.
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Limiting my contact with Australian bugbears
Heckler AFTER moving to the US six weeks ago, the list of things I miss about Australia would fill this entire newspaper. Far easier then, to talk about the things I don't miss.
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A matter of mind over fatter
Heckler I REALLY like the idea of schools being conscripted into the war on obesity by having to weigh and measure kids - but why stop at that? Teachers must be front line soldiers in this war and fix the...
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Education cuts score a fail now and for the future
Heckler I HAVE drafted this missive many times, each time trying to form my anger into some kind of coherent shape. I have tried to be witty; I have tried to be even-handed; I have tried to be analytical.
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Emotions are at the forefront in schools
Heckler I'M WONDERING if I'll wear make-up to work on Tuesday. I realise it seems a little odd to be thinking about this already, but my colleagues , know exactly what I'm talking about.
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I want out of Generation I
Heckler TODAY'S teenagers are shaped by a multitude of weighty issues - high levels of teenage obesity, a heavy binge drinking culture and a social media landscape with hefty consequences.
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Coming to terms with a new year
The Heckler THIS is a special bulletin to all bad mothers to fill them in on the details of the annual back to school meeting which took place this week.
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Public servants really care
Heckler HEY, state government. It's time to give us public servants a break. We know that you think we are lazy, overpaid, out-of-control, bureaucratic, lefty time-wasters, who are profligate with taxpayers'...
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Testing times for teachers
Heckler There's another side to the My School results published recently by the Herald that is very difficult to see through the wall of numbers.
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Test patrons not patience at concerts
Heckler THERE should be a requirement for all concert patrons to pass a test before being issued with a permit to attend concerts.
Listen pal, I don't want my toddler as a mate
Heckler I DON'T want to be friends with my kids. I want to be their dad and their confidant and their teacher of life lessons and their geeky example to rebel against.
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One-way conversation
Heckler I am not good at small talk. I take a novel to the hairdressers because I cannot bear three hours' grilling about my weekend plans, particularly when my answer is "wasting three hours of...
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Childish stuff but let it pass
Heckler IN MY year 6 class boy germs and girl germs are just as real as they were in kindergarten.
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The 'Penny!' that put paid to Pilates
Heckler ALL WAS well until the Pilates instructor began using my name with contempt and exasperation. ''Penny!'' Translation: You are holding the rest of us up.
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Me and my big head
Heckler YOUNG people today probably think they will never start a sentence with ''young people today''. Let alone ''when we were kids''.
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Good diction is now fiction
Heckler If there is one thing that raises my hackles it is sloppy diction. ''Ee-NUN-see-ate,'' my speech teacher would bellow when I was at school.
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We are too quick to label children
Heckler BACK in the last century when I was teaching there was a favourite staff room story of the student teacher who, on his first day, found an alphabetical class list with a number next to each student's...
